Just got my 17" MacBook Pro the other day and installed RC2 on it two days ago. The program is quite nice and I look forward to putting it through its paces over the coming weeks as I contemplate a purchase. That said, I'm having issues with Win98 (both first and second editions). First, I can't get any sound. It is set to start on launch, the volume on my Mac is turned up, I can hear Mac sounds and events, the sound icon in the Parallels window says that sound is active... but I get nothing. In the Control Panels > System it specifically says that the sound hardware is not active. Am I supposed to install some kind of sound driver manually from the Win98 discs to get it working? Second, I cannot get networking to work through my Airport. If I follow the instructions in the "Desktop Networking FAQ" I get nothing. I have the sharing set up exactly as described, but DHCP within Windows simply does not work. I get 0.0.0.0 for the IP. I had read that manually putting in an IP would work, and it did... sort of. I can go into Start Menu > Run > Command and do ipconfig. I get valid information there. Likewise I can ping internal and external IP addresses, but not DNS. If I ping a DNS on the Mac side to obtain an IP, I can ping that IP through Windows in Parallels. If I connect to that IP directly in Internet Explorer in Windows I get web content. DNS is simply not working. I tried putting in a DNS server IP that pings properly in Windows, but no dice. That begs the question of: which networking control panel needs the DNS? Does my Airport network system preference in OS X need the DNS address, and that gets passed to Parallels? Should I instead put the DNS address into "Parallels Host-Guest Adapter" under the Networking system preference pane in OS X? Or should it go directly into my Windows IP configuration? Or should it go into all three? That didn't seem to work for me, but perhaps I'm getting some kind of configuration conflict? Third, I cannot see my network storage device (Linkstation) on the network in Windows. I have another Windows98 box (Toshiba Libretto 110CT) that sees the drive just fine. When I go to "Entire Network" in the Parallels guest OS I am told that there is no network to explore. I have verified and re-verified that both the Linkstation and Windows are in the same workgroup called WORKGROUP. I set up file sharing as a networking service in Windows and now the Parallels system shows up under "Entire Network", but nothing else does. These are potentially deal-breakers for me, as I have a stack of my older Windows games (non 3D accelerated, like Planescape:Torment and The Curse of Monkey Island) I want to get working. No network means it's difficult to get patches installed or to transfer saved game files from my Linkstation to Windows. Additionally, some stuff requires a quick jaunt into Windows world, like to update the firmware on my Linkstation. I really don't want to have to dual-boot with Boot Camp just to run a firmware update on a device. No sound means exactly what it says. I had, perhaps naively, expected a bit more of a solid solution with RC2. I'm still toughing it out for now though. Any help would of course be hugely appreciated. ------------------------------------------------------------ As a newbie to Parallels ethernet bridging I've found that there are some steps I've not seen documented that weren't clear to me. I record here that information for posterity in the hopes it will help others. For example, it was not immediately obvious to me that the manual IP you assign to Windows (because DHCP isn't working) must fall within the DHCP range found under the DHCP tab in Parallels > Preferences. Nor was it immediately obvious what router to use in configuring a manual IP in Windows. I believe I'm supposed to use the IP address of the "Parallels Host-Guest Adapter" under the Networking system preference pane in OS X. Nor was it immediately obvious that "Ethernet Adaptor (en2)" in the Sharing system preference pane in OS X refers to the virtual ethernet used by Parallels. That adapter could be called anything, so why the semi-cryptic name? Why not just call it "Parallels Virtual Ethernet" or something that makes it crystal clear?
Sound in WIN98 and a MBP I get sound just fine using Win98 and my MacBook Pro. There was an extra install step, but not from the WIN98 CD, but using the VM>Install Parrallels Tool. After the "main" tools were installed, it gave me the option of installing WIN 98 sound drivers. I then got sound just fine.
Networking Win 98, MBP, and airport I had trouble with this too. Could NOT get bridging to work. Had to use Host Only Networking w/sharing enabled on my MBP. Also you have to go to your MacOSX system prefs, sharing and set the sharing as listed in the sticky post Then I reset the networking prefs in WIN98SE to (TCP/IP) to Tab IP address - obtain IP address automatically, Tab WINS Config-USE DHCP for WINS Res., Tab Gateway - ALL BLANK TAB DNS - Disable DNS Then my internet connection worked fine! I can even use my iDisk after upgrading to IE 6
